Upcoming and Past Events
Save the Date: An Evening with Joan Chen
September 19. 2012
Our 22nd Anniversary Dinner will feature an interview with the renouned actress and director Joan Chen about her work and her transition from Chinese actress to International actress and director. Selected film clips wll be shown.
The event will be held at Yank Sing Restaurant at the Rincon Center in San Francisco.
More about the program will be available at a later date.
The 21st Anniversary Dinner
Honoring retiring founding directors C.B.Sung, Chairman; Han-Sheng Cheng, President, and William (Billy) Lee
Keynote speaker Steve Westly on "Clean Tech in China"
May 25, 2011
The program started with Wei-Tai Kwok, incoming chairman, tribute to the three retiring founders (See text of speech), followed by an acknowledgement by Billy Lee for the three founders. Due to a lack of time, Mr. Lee had to shorten his acknowledgement, but the entire original speech is published here.
The title of Mr. Westly's speech was "China, The United States, and The Clean Tech Revolution".
The 20th Anniversary Dinner - China's Trajectory in the Next 20 Years
Friday, April 23, 2010
Ambassador Gao Zhansheng, Consul General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco, Ambassador Linda Tsao Yang, Clinton Administration representative to the Asian Development Bank, and Professor Norton Wheeler were speakers. Ambassador Yang made predictions of upcoming Chinese government policies and their implementation in the next 20 years.
The 19th Anniversary Dinner - Social Entrepreneurs
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Mr. Wilford Welch, author of Tactics of Hope: How Social Entrepreneurs are Changing Our World will be the keynote speaker at our 19th Anniversary Dinner. His talk will be: "What Social Entrepreneurs Have to Teach Business."
Scaling Up: From Green Buildings
to Green Cities in the U.S. and China
Friday, May 1, 2009
The 1990 Institute is co-sponsoring with the Asia Society and Bay Area Council to bring you this conference.
Buildings consume well over 30 percent of all primary energy in the world, more than either transportation or industry. Today, the greatest challenge for green design is to scale up—to move beyond pilot projects and piecemeal solutions to building and retrofitting on a massive scale in order to have a meaningful impact on global warming.
This one-day conference is the first to bring together leading green design specialists from the fields of research, technology, architecture, business, and policy from the U.S. and China to build dialogue and collaboration. The US and China are rapidly becoming the global centers for green design promotion, development, and investment.
For detail information, please go to http://www.asiasociety.org/greencities/
Please note that associates of The 1990 Institute are entitled to the special co-sponsor attendance fee of $100. Click here to register.
Microfinance Project Benefit - Ping Pong Playa Movie Premiere
September 6, 2008
Fund raiser for the Microfinance Project at the San Francisco Metreon premiere of "Ping Pong Playa", a feature length movie co-written and directed by the Oscar Award director Jessica Yu and starring Jimmy Tsai.
Tickets to this fund raiser included admission to a private reception after the screening to meet Jessica as well as a chance to play ping pong against Jimmy.
May 18-19, 2008 A mural painting festival conducted at China National Children's Center in Beijing, China. Theme: Global Environment - Peace and Friendship International students studying in China and Chinese students from several major cities jointly designed and painted murals at the Children's Center during the two day festival. April 22, 2008 The keynote presenter was Taylor M. Francis, a 15-year old from Menlo Park who was trained personally by Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore to speak to audiences around the country about global warming. The topic was "China and the Climate Crisis".
Grand Mural Painting Festival in Beijing
The 18th Annual Banquet
